Which is Faster, Freestyle or unoptimized mesh?
A Freestyle optimized mesh will render way faster than an unoptimized version that may look the same when rendered. The next bottleneck is edge types. Edge types are located in the line set panel. For optimal render time, fewer edge types are always faster.
What are the geometry modifiers in freestyle style?
Geometry modifiers sub-tab in line style is the gem of Freestyle. The available modifiers give you the freedom to add many screen space manipulations to your lines. That freedom also means you can easily abuse it. All the noise category modifiers and bezier curve are heavy when more than one are stacked together.
How are edges rendered in freestyle in Blender?
So in reality we only have 4. Visibility determines what edges will be rendered as freestyle by visibility. Set this to visible and freestyle will use the edges that we can see from the camera. Hidden will use the lines that are not visible from the camera, but is hidden behind some other object or geometry.
How to optimize freestyle for fast rendering?
Freestyle line drawing is view dependent, hence every frame needs to be calculated. To optimize scenes from bottlenecking, separate meshes to different render layers. The logic behind that is, for each render layer, Freestyle will create a data called view map.
Can you draw with freestyle lines in Blender?
With Freestyle lines drawing alone, you can make a lot of cool artworks. If you have been following the twitter tag #b3d the past few months, you’ll notice many cool artworks are done with it. Freestyle is available for Blender Internal and (good news) will be available in Cycles for the next release, Blender 2.72.
Why do you need freestyle for fast rendering?
The logic behind that is, for each render layer, Freestyle will create a data called view map. The less geometry that the view map sees means faster for it to be calculated as RAM usage increases with more geometry.